Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-11
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Gladstone Presented With a TESTING
NAL From Several Thousand Citi-
zans Of New York City,
The German Press, Under Official In
struet!ons, Creating a War
Feeling Against France.
General BouIanGsr Tells the French to I..t
Their Cry 30 give La Kcpublique,"
"YiTe La Belle France
England.
En 3 ara.
THE GLADSTONE TESTIMONIAL,

THE GLADSTONE TESTIMONIAL.
LONDON, July 1O.-Yesterday afternoon
at DOLLS Hill, in the presence of e rum
Der of guests invited by Mrs. Gladstone
to garden party, the American testi-
mcnial TO Mr.. Gladstone was formally
| presented TO the eX-premIer and after
ward exhibited by MIN to the guests.
| The presentation speech was made By
Hon. Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York
World. Pulitzer was accompanied to
! DOLLS Hill by Mrs. Pulitzer, Hon. Perry
Belmont of New York, Hon. Patrick D..
| Collins Of Boston, Richard NJ. Walters
and 7. c. Crawford, London correspond
ent OF the New York World. Gladstone
received the patty a. o'clock, and after
shaking hands and presenting them
to Mrs Gladstone, all proceeded tC
the lawn where the testimonial WIS taken
out and stood up on box. The massive
piece Of silver work was carefully exam
iled and admired. Ii was the irst time
/ Gladstone had seen it. Pulitzer then
spoke as follows: "lIr Gladstone, 0,GSJ
people Of the first city of America, Gsk the
lirst citizen Of England to accept this gift.
They ask you to accept it as an Offering
TO you of their sinCerest sympathy. They
ask you to accept If as token Of personal
admiration, They ssk you 10 accept it IS
4 tribute 70 your great public
services in the causes Of civil and re-
ligious freedom. They ask you 20 accept
il for your determination that the pTiG-
cipies OF liberty and Justice which made
England SO free and so great shall nc
logger be denied TO Ireland They asa
you 10 accept it as IN evidence Of the
irrepressi0lG sympathy between liberty
loving masses which is more sincere than
that Of rulers. They especially ask you
to accept 81, because ia your great struo-
gle for home rule and humsnity
tor Ireland you represent essen
italy those American principles
of representative legislation and
political equality by which the greet
ness of their own country end their own
well being is possible. The subscribers
10 the testimonial, though limited 20 the
circle Of a single journal, in reality rep
resent in measure almost every Gle
ment Of American society, every pOliti-
cal party, every class, creed, color, race
or nationality, and poor women and chill
dlen, and only through the New York
World, newspaper which suggested the
subscriptions. They are sharply di-
FltEt vi lLCSL puD4lC QUESTIONS
differing according TO feeling
or interest, but on one statesman they
heartily agree, that is William EWart
Gladstone. 81 In one sentiment they all
unite, that is this, their love of freedom,
their hatred of oppression, their objection
to privileged inequality and Injustice,
their opposition to wrong however an
Cient, their adherence Of coercion on
THl an nuT Nv ~TTr
methods of reform Il in their sympathy
with suffering, in their respect
for the Just rights o. property,
in their belief that every civilized
people Is entitled TO self government,
in their conviction that government must
be based not on hatred end defiance C
the clearly ascertained will Of tae people,
but upon that viii itself, and they regard
you as the foremost leader Of ali English-
speaking people throughout the world
in battling for those sentiments. They
honor you because in the inevitable cor
fiCt between democratic and autOcratic
ideas you represent the former. They
between the American and the
the privileges Of the few against
y
the American side. T1ev side with YOU,
cheer you, strengthen you, thsHk you
VITA all their hearts, for home RUE is
true AmeriCanism, and true Americanism
is home rule. Americans nave no desire
to interfere in the relations between
England and the United States. They
know what Euglsnd has dOHe tor Il 5erty
and civilization for all mankind They
know how you people nave sympatliZed
with every struggle sgalust tyranny
IN Europe, IN Greece as well as
Italy, in Poland IS well ~
Hungary. They know when nearly I'll
Europe suffered from despOtic rule Eng
land on this side Of the Atlantic offered
the only hope, the only refuge to the CP-
pressed. Perhaps they may DE pardoGed
for saying, because they know end appre-
Ciste ell this, because they know how
England granted more than home rule 10
Africa and Australia, they consider il
most strange that the demands for less
in Ireland should De refused. It
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